Debt Collection Cases in Korea on the Rise: Buyers and Sellers Beware

My firm has noticed a sharp increase in the number of requests for the debt collection services of my team. One of these cases involves an unpaid invoice from a British company to a Korean wholesaler for over USD 700,000. The British company was duped by a small paid invoice which was quickly followed by an unpaid large invoice. Of course, the Korean company (not a company –one guy and a personal bank account) was not capitalized and has few assets. The case shall be handled through a criminal filing. The other matters are for mainly low six-figure debts or claims based on faulty or non-delivered goods. Some of the cases involved nothing more than scams to the less than careful foreign businesses. Others were caused by the squeeze that the liquidity crisis has put on local small businesses. I have written articles on this in the past. Please conduct

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